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Captain Hygiene posted:Lol that's a stunningly bad set of decisions. Really good read. The weird thing is that people in the UK still use Hoover as a generic term for vacuum cleaner , 30 years on from when the brand was utterly destroyed by this insane stupidity.
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I like the dude that blocked in a Hoover delivery van with his horse truck for a full fortnight until the courts intervened.
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I'm guessing it's a truck for hauling horses in trailers, but the alternative definition of "horse truck" is far more appealing.
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Thinkgn of that time a guy sued pepsi for not giving him a harrier jumpjet even though he collected the roughly 700 billion pep-coins required by the advertisement that was clearly a joke.
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Volcott posted:Thinkgn of that time a guy sued pepsi for not giving him a harrier jumpjet even though he collected the roughly 700 billion pep-coins required by the advertisement that was clearly a joke. No he collected a handful and then wrote a check
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Then he is even less deserving of the jet airplane than I thought.
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Checking out the story, the ruling is actually kind of hilarious? It contains the lines "The teenager's comment that flying a Harrier Jet to school 'sure beats the bus' evinces an improbably insouciant attitude toward the relative difficulty and danger of piloting a fighter plane in a residential area" and "No school would provide landing space for a student's fighter jet, or condone the disruption the jet's use would cause," which makes me think the judge was having some fun with it. But yeah, he only had 15 points, ten bucks for shipping and handing, a check for $700,000 that Pepsi couldn't cash unless they were willing to give him a Harrier jet.
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smellmycheese posted:This probably deserves a place here. Probably the most catastrophic customer promotion of all time I think the executives who came up with the promotion should've had to pay for people's flights out of their own pockets.
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Volcott posted:Thinkgn of that time a guy sued pepsi for not giving him a harrier jumpjet even though he collected the roughly 700 billion pep-coins required by the advertisement that was clearly a joke. smellmycheese posted:This probably deserves a place here. Probably the most catastrophic customer promotion of all time
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Haifisch posted:I'm a fan of the part where they ran their plan by risk management professionals, the professionals shat their pants at just how terrible of an idea it was, and Hoover went ahead and did it anyway. That was my favorite too. Such a perfect opportunity to bail out of the scheme but they just doubled down on it.
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isnt Contest/promo/sweepstake/whatever Law a distant 2nd place to Tree Law in terms of of legit voodoo law magic and potential schadenfreude.
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Please enjoy this car advert from a mere 21 years ago https://twitter.com/ukads3/status/1399615686566100993
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smellmycheese posted:Please enjoy this car advert from a mere 21 years ago Not saying it works or that it hasn't aged like milk even with the context.
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Flipperwaldt posted:That actor played exactly that kind of dick in the BBC sitcom Coupling that came out in 2000, so I'm assuming it ties in with that. Everyone in the series is clearly a caricature and an unbearable person in some way or another. So you are supposed to read him as a misogynistic tory prick that is obsessed with car specs and mock him for the former while respecting the latter. It feels like there's a punchline missing, something like a woman pulling alongside and explaining how the powersteering control works before absolutely trashing him in a drag race or something. And now I'm sad remembering how disappointing the final season of Coupling was. 
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Jun 1, 2021 16:01
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Skittles brought back their colorless pride bag for 2021
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Taste the ennuiTM
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It's honestly kind of impressive watching the internet sour on it more and more each year
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Jun 2, 2021 19:28
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What kind of psycho puts a skittle in their mouth without knowing the flavor
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Gaius Marius posted:What kind of psycho puts a skittle in their mouth
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My thoughts exactly. Skittles are custom-tailored to sinal absorption.
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Brawnfire posted:My thoughts exactly. Skittles are custom-tailored to anal absorption.
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Gaius Marius posted:What kind of psycho puts a skittle in their mouth without knowing the flavor How about a mixed handful of them 
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A Pack of Kobolds posted:How about a mixed handful of them Too bad they don't make colorless M&Ms, can throw those in and go for pure evil. 
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Zil posted:Too bad they don't make colorless M&Ms, can throw those in and go for pure evil. You can get white M&M's. A Pack of Kobolds posted:How about a mixed handful of them The correct way to eat Skittles is to pour out the package, dispose of the green apple ones, group them all in accordance to color, and then eat them in the same order as the color's of the rainbow.
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Jun 2, 2021 19:55
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I just dump in the whole bag 
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Gaius Marius posted:The correct way to eat Skittles is to pour out the package, dispose of the green apple ones, group them all in accordance to color, and then eat them in the same order as the color's of the rainbow. Whomever decided that they should switch from lime to green apple should have killed by a firing squad
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Jun 2, 2021 20:07
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Gaius Marius posted:You can get white M&M's. You spelled Lemon wrong
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DoubleT2172 posted:Whomever decided that they should switch from lime to green apple should have killed by a firing squad It feels like there was a weird purge of lime flavor in favor of green apple in a lot of candies a while back and I've never understood why. Green apple seems like one of those flavors that candy makers can't do a good job with, it always tastes a lot sharper than other flavors in a way that doesn't go together with them.
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I noticed that too. My guess is the flavoring agent for “green apple” is much cheaper than the one for “lime”
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They should have replaced green apple with blue raspberry rather than replacing lemon for it in Jolly Ranchers. The green apple flavor makes my throat feel weird and gives me a strange cough, that nothing else does.
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https://twitter.com/Skittles/status/1395105197798658050 Meanwhile, in weirdly coincidental timing 
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I hate that so much. Dumbass company tries to appear relatable by talking about interns not being paid while pointing out the company itself perpetuates that system. I loving hate brand twitter
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Every brand’s Twitter account:
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DoubleT2172 posted:Whomever decided that they should switch from lime to green apple should have killed by a firing squad I used to meet with Wrigley reps fairly regularly at industry trade shows and kept telling them this (in somewhat gentler terms.)
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Gaius Marius posted:You can get white M&M's. What? No, you pour them out, separate by colour, and make sure there are an equal number of each colour by eating the excess. Then you eat them in groups so there are always equal numbers of each colour left. Heathen.
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Who are y'all that don't eat the entire bag of Skittles or M&Ms in one bite and how haven't you been drummed out of goondom?
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HopperUK posted:What? No, you pour them out, separate by colour, and make sure there are an equal number of each colour by eating the excess. Then you eat them in groups so there are always equal numbers of each colour left. The tagline is literally "Taste the Rainbow" The clear authorial intent behind the act of consuming skittles is to taste them in the order inherent to a rainbow. By consuming the Excess you're robbing yourself of the intended experience. You've cheated not only yourself, but the work of all the people who worked to create the flavor medium.
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I grab a handful of skittles and eat them in order of worst to best, but without eating two of the same flavor consecutively
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Skittles are only good for making Skittlebrau, it's right there in the name!
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